How to build in public - Kevon Cheung, Public Lab

If you’re wanting to learn about building in public, Kevon Cheung is your guy. After not getting the fulfilment he desired from the VC funded startup dream, Kevon struck out on his own in 2020 to become an indie hacker. Since then he’s launched the Build in Public Mastery course, started a newsletter called Public Lab, wrote the Definitive Guide to Building in Public and then to top this all off, wrote a book called Find Joy in Chaos.

What we covered in this episode:

• Building credibility
• Taking a 6 month bet
• Starting from scratch to learn a trend
• Choosing to build in public
• Anyone can learn any topic
• Is building in public just sharing MRR numbers?
• What is building in public?
• False positives of building an audience
• Building a creator business
• How to differentiate course content to blog content
• Info products vs SaaS

Recommendations:

• Book: Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffet, $100m Offers by Alex Hormozi
• Podcast: Socialette, The Bootstrapped Founder
• Indie Hacker: Monica Lent, Jay Clouse, Marie Ng

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